Armored Hostile Suit

The Armored Hostile Suit makes its sole appearance in Fugitive Telemetry as a high-end powered exoskeleton designed for extreme hostile environments, far surpassing standard SecUnit armor in strength, durability, and motor control precision (with key interfaces located at the back neck joint). Initially mistaken by a group of refugees for standard SecUnit gear, the suit becomes central to Murderbot's investigation into a suspicious death aboard the station, revealing its use in a corporate cover-up and attempted assassination. Though it never recurs in later books, the suit underscores the vast technological gap between commercial security units and specialized military hardware, influencing Murderbot's ongoing wariness of advanced corporate weaponry and its preference for more subtle, hacked SecUnit modifications over brute-force armor.